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doc: clarify fs.link and fs.linkSync arguments
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Clarifies documentation by replacing the argument names `srcpath`
and `dstpath` with more descriptive `existingPath` and `newPath`,
reflecting how POSIX describes `link()`.

PR-URL: #9145
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
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kemitchell authored and jasnell committed Oct 24, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -1034,25 +1034,25 @@ deprecated: v0.4.7

Synchronous lchown(2). Returns `undefined`.

## fs.link(srcpath, dstpath, callback)
## fs.link(existingPath, newPath, callback)
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.31
-->

* `srcpath` {String | Buffer}
* `dstpath` {String | Buffer}
* `existingPath` {String | Buffer}
* `newPath` {String | Buffer}
* `callback` {Function}

Asynchronous link(2). No arguments other than a possible exception are given to
the completion callback.

## fs.linkSync(srcpath, dstpath)
## fs.linkSync(existingPath, newPath)
<!-- YAML
added: v0.1.31
-->

* `srcpath` {String | Buffer}
* `dstpath` {String | Buffer}
* `existingPath` {String | Buffer}
* `newPath` {String | Buffer}

Synchronous link(2). Returns `undefined`.

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